There’s an old legal saying that goes something like, “When the facts are on your side, pound on the facts; when the law is on your side, pound on the law; when neither are on your side, pound on the table.”
We’ve heard a lot of table-pounding in response to our discussion of sugar taxes in Jenesa’s report. Most of it points out that we’re a member-based organisation and darkly hints that member interests guided our pens.
John Roughan’s column this week is very much on point.
If you wonder why social research never produces unexpected results like real science, so do I. Be that as it may, the researchers share their findings in academic journals and convinced of its importance they march fearlessly out of their faculty into the public domain.
There, something strange happens. They are lionised by the media. Public health campaigns make compelling news because…
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